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...Even typically reliable strongholds like Idaho and Alaska could potentially be vulnerable next year. In Idaho, McConnell has made it clear he'd prefer embattled Senator Larry Craig - who pled guilty to disorderly conduct after Minneapolis airport police accused him of attempting to solicit gay sex in an airport bathroom - to resign immediately. That would leave a vacancy for Idaho Governor Butch Otter, a Republican, to appoint someone to serve out the last 15 months of Craig's term and preserve the party's incumbent advantage...
...made the U.S. Secretaries of State and Defense wait 45 minutes for him before delivering them a tongue-lashing over the missile defense plan. Another jab follows on Tuesday, when Putin becomes the first occupant of the Kremlin since Stalin to visit Tehran, a capital Washington would very much prefer to keep isolated. The Russian leader's message is plain: If the U.S. continues, as he sees it, to tread on Russia's toes, Russia has little interest in helping Washington achieve its strategic goals...
...either radically high or low - they all betoken a director who doesn't trust his material. And why should he? The statecraft of 400 years ago is not the stuff of great movies - all mutterings in the shadows about geopolitical issues that the screenwriters, William Nicholson and Michael Hirst, prefer not to go into. That leaves Kapur with the Elizabeth-Raleigh thing, which is, truth to tell, no more than a flirtation without a fruition. Blanchett and Owen do what they can with it - she is alternately coy and bawdy; he is blunt, refreshingly lacking in courtly wiles and drawn...
...than a slingshot into directorship for the young and ambitious--but who cared? Somewhere, perhaps in Tokyo or Paris, that old-timey expatriate still sips his midday martini at the foreigners' club. But in the rough-and-tumble markets of China and India, a new generation of expats--they prefer "global executives," thank you--haven't yet had a chance to sign up for membership. They're too busy chasing local talent, adapting to a wildly different culture and riding phenomenal growth in markets vital to their companies' futures. And when they get back to the U.S., make no mistake...
...SLOW. Visit several farms to determine what kind of work you would enjoy. Most hobbyists prefer to raise animals, which they can pet, as opposed to, say, watching corn grow...